Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-23
SPIRIT OF THE NETS.
Rain has ended the Texan drontl..

Rain has ended the Texan trontl,.
There are $4,000 women farmers in
Ireland.
M. De Giers has been decorated By
the Car OF REssia in appreciation of
MS advice to maintain peace.
In South America the ladies have
custom OF throwing valuable fans upon
the stage instead of bouquets.
a woman in Ohio eats nothing but
pie. She has not tasted meat, bread,
or vegetables for sixteen years.
1t is estimated that 1000 vous.g.
women earn their living as goyernesses
in private English families with salaries
at 500 a year.
The two ladies in the New York
School Board voted against each other
on the question of fning Il teacher for
slapping pupil.
The eldest son of the German Crown
Prince is such an intense PARTISAN and
Halter Of France that he refuses even to
drink champagne, and will drink only
German wines.
George Washington, of color, was ar
raigned in a Brooklyn police court the
other day upon the complaint of Mar
tina Washington, his wife, that he had
threatened to kill her
William Ward, who has just died in
Sedalia, Mo-, aged 90, was the first
man to build q paper-mill west of the
Mississippi River. His father lived to
be centenarian, and his grandmother
died at ITO.
Herr Most pronounces the prison on
blackWell's Island greatly inferior te,
similar institutions in Europe. Havir %
sampled various prisons in his time, he
IS fully competent to speak Of their
relative merits
Capt. John A. Dokc, who re Gently
died at Mantle, Mass, aged 81, was the
last survivor Of the Washington Artil-
lery of Boston in attendance. at the
laying of the cornerstone Of t. le Bunker
Hill Monument.
Thomas Wight, of Otisheld. 1.-the
most eccentric man in Maine" died re-
Gently at the age Of 80, having never in
his life been i'll day. He is said to
| have eaten half-pint of ashes every
| day for many years, but this is probab.
| ~ a concentrated lie.
Nine. Minnie Hauk has received
from the French Government the title
and Insignia of "Officier de lAcademie''
III recognition of her distinguished
| services for French musical art. ST q
is the first American thus honored.
William c. Beecher will prepay q =.
biography of his father from the .abnn
dant notes, letters, and papers left nv
him. He will be assisted in hi, wori
by Mrs. Henry Ward Beoef .er and
other members Of the family.
The Crown Prince of Gerr ,anvsis suf
tering from bad affec ton of tho
throat, for which the application If
electricity is considered by his medical
advisers to be the most likely cure, In
fortnight or thee weeks he will nro-
| ceed to Ems, where he will be one of
the earliest arrivals of the season.
The Hendricks Monument Associo-
ton has collected about s21 900 If tba
$4,000 required to build u monument
to the memory of the late Vice-Presi-
| dent.
Judge Hornblower of San Franciso y
furnishes still another Illustration -
the truth "there's nothing in a n2 ma -
lie is one Of the quietest APP, hard-
WORKING members of the benz, on tn.
coast. AZ vi 'no
Mr.: Daniel O'Day ,Presi7 .ept Of the Buf-
lalo Natural Gas Compy nv wasan Ell.
Railroad workman att, So . JaTr n. bt
inc OH 1ever broke out. He went in
1or ol!' struck it., and is now WORTH
p MISS MARY b Doth, editor Of Harper's
nazar, mas gene to Europe, where she
WIZ speho i've months in travel, This
IS her hrEt real vacation since she tool
charge OF the Bazaar, twenty years ago.
thomas Jefferson was probably the.
1rst cut-nail manufacturer in the,
united States, his nail works BEING on
ms place at Monticello, and prodncines.
eighty pounds of nails eash yorkinr
day. u
Miss Catharine Wolf left an ests,
valued at S15,O00,00o, The bulk Of -
after deducting the public beouests. ~ ~
pretty evenly divided among re',a +;nas
ana SO carefully devised that the 'i I've
yefs will realize nothing from a + .ont +Iss
n; In Ontario all single W on ZEN ane
WIDOWS with the proper ,oual;f i,n'
tions can vote, and that is on 1890
why al the municipal oHic ,rs IN - -,
province are such sweet mild .monnaraS
men. oi' hi'io "
The girls at Covingtun., kv,. b,v.
organized a boycot5 which Involves NOM
association with young I'D en- who oat
drunk. The girls have int rodnced W e. q
no man had wit enough to devisa-" .'
ooycott that is both expe' dent and larT'
William Moore, a hotel NOV
Atkinson, visited Kansas CITY tho n;hos.
Jay ana was mistaken on Frank lance
Large crowds followed him wbarar 800.
ne went till the mista) se was discovarad
do with him. more 20
cornelius Vande.rbilt's four conc 49,.
sne editors, proprietors, printers ~;
publishers n, &c OF q @isxely amateur pane
called the Cooet. 1t appears month
monthly and a +L,;11. awful /